Pauli-Villars and the ultraviolet completion of Einstein gravity

2024/03/28 by Philip D. Mannheim, Mannheim, Philip D.
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #History and Developments in Astronomy #Relativity and Gravitational Theory

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2404.16148

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Abstract

Through use of the Pauli-Villars regulator procedure we construct a second- plus fourth-order-derivative theory of gravity that serves as an ultraviolet completion of standard second-order-derivative quantum Einstein gravity that is ghost-free, unitary and power counting renormalizable.

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